Dr Kok Soo Chon, the lead investigator, told the
media that psychological evidence on captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah
gave no indication he was suicidal.

More broadly, the report said that investigators have
found no evidence that the pilot or crew could be behind the
disaster.

A major new report on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines
flight MH370 has dismissed one of the most pervasive - and
horrific - theories for why the plane went missing: that a
suicidal pilot may have crashed the jet on purpose.

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Investigators funded by the Malaysian government today said that
psychological evidence they gathered disputes the popular theory
that captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, or a colleague, may have
intentionally killed himself and everybody else on board.

The 495-report
document said that neither Shah nor his first officer, Fariq
Abdul Hamid, showed psychological signs that suggest that could
have deliberately crashed the plane.

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The disappearance is an enduring mystery.

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According to both family members and work associates for
the crew "there were no
behavioral signs of social isolation, change in habits or
interest, self-neglect, involvement in drug or alcohol abuse" in
any staff on the plane.

The investigation team also
compared CCTV footage of the pilot and first officer as they
waited in the airport to footage of them waiting for previous
flights, to see whether anything seemed different. It did
not.

Past voice recordings of both men
talking to air traffic control also did not seem significantly
different to previous flights, they said.

Dr Kok Soo Chon, the lead investigator, told reporters at a
press conference on the report that the men exhibited "no anxiety
or stress."

According to a liveblog of proceedings by The Guardian,
Kok: "There were two psychiatrists in my team and
they were responsible for examining the audio recordings of the
pilot and they concluded there was no anxiety and no stress in
the recording, it was just normal, and they also recorded the
footage from CCTV ... they didn't find any significant behavioral
changes."

Kok added that the report was ultimately "not
ruling out anything," but found plenty of evidence against the
suicide theory.

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A Malaysian child with his face painted at a remembrance event for MH370 victims in March 2016.

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In the run-up to this report, the suicide theory remained
one of the most pervasive explanations for what could have caused
the flight to disappear without a trace on March 8, 2014.